Cute lunar robots test their skills on Italy's Etna volcano

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Cute lunar robots test their skills on Italy's Etna volcano
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The Lightweight Rover Unit 1 training for a moon mission on the lunar-like slopes of Italy's Mount Etna.

With its adorable stereo-camera eyes, the Lightweight Rover Unit 1 robot, posing on the black gravel of Italy's Mount Etna, resembles PIXAR's famous animated character WALL-E. LRU1 is one of a team of eye-catching robots designed by Germany's engineers that have recently completed a test run on the moon-like slopes of Europe's most active volcano.

The robots, developed by the German Aerospace Center , spent the last week of June demonstrating their ability to move around and navigate the challenging landscape with minimal human guidance. -like soil with its cameras, assisted by its"brother", the Lightweight Rover Unit 2 . LRU2, equipped with a robotic arm and hand, can grasp baseball-sized rocks and provide tactile feedback, virtually allowing the scientists to remotely"feel" the lunar stones.

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